I only deposited to play in the slot tournaments. I never even went to the actual slot games. Do you think I have a case?
Maybe, the rules say nothing about using WINNINGS to play a tournement, only that you cannot use the free chip to pay entry fees. What you win is YOUR money, you would be able to WITHDRAW that money once WR have been met on the free chip, so there is no reason for a player to think there are ANY restrictions on what this won money can be used for.
Technically, this can be avoided by first withdrawing the winnings, and immediately redepositing from your deposit method, and using this money to fund tournament entries. The terms should make this CLEAR, since this is NOT something many players will assume.
There may be other players who have done this, but have not won anything in the tournaments, so have not come across this before.
Since the tournaments are a software feature, the software should itself enforce the rules PROPERLY, so that not only are players protected, but the TOURNAMENTS are protected from after the fact disqualifications.
In this case, a player won a big prize, but got disqualified from receiving that prize, BUT other players PAID IN to this tournament, in the expectation that these payments were being used to fund the prizes, but in this case it seems the casino pocketed the money from this disqualification.
Normally where someone is disqualified from an event, they are removed from the scoreboard, and those below move up a place, and receive the higher prize.
Did this happen in THIS tournament, or did the casino indeed simply pocket the prize they confiscated?